If a man marries his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his punishment.

If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!

For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and He considers all his paths.

My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

A large population is a king’s splendor,
but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.

Rehoboam married Mahalath, daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

King Rehoboam established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king and reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

“And now you are saying you can assert yourselves against the Lord’s kingdom, which is in the hand of one of David’s sons. You are a vast number and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into God’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.

So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying,

“There’s a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Israel’s King Baasha so that he will withdraw from me.”

for Israel’s King Ahab asked Judah’s King Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?”

He replied to him, “I am as you are, my people as your people; we will be with you in the battle.”

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

The assigned duties of Merari’s descendants involved the tabernacle’s supports, crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and all the work related to these,

Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin,
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

“It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says,
but after he is on his way, he gloats.

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign from beginning to end are written in the Events of Jehu son of Hanani, which is recorded in the Book of Israel’s Kings.

After this, Judah’s King Jehoshaphat made an alliance with Israel’s King Ahaziah, who was guilty of wrongdoing.

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight,

During Jehoram’s reign, Edom rebelled against Judah’s domination and appointed their own king.